Mohave County miner., 1887-09-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ORION OR BEGuLAR CORRESPONDENT
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WASHINGTON LETTER..
ORION OR BEGuLAR CORRESPONDENT
WAsHrsoToS, d. g., Aug. 23, 1887.
When President Cleveland was inaugur.
a.ed, the old Bourbon element Of this Dis.
triot carne soiidly to the front. They had
literally TO the campaign fund
and anticipated prompt recognition of
theii services. They had been in tho social
and political background, 10. many, many
years, and now that change had como
every old fossil that had politisal exist.
ence prior to the Republican regime heard
tho resurrection trumpet and came forth
demanding and expecting a good fat office.
A more greedy, rayenous and shameful rush
for place was never witnessed. Delegations
numerous aspirants besieged tho White
House day and night and expectations were
Mt high water mark. Two and half years
Of the administration have passed away,
and what is the local result? Only three
Of the many respectable positions belonging
10 tho District are filled with "homo tai
ent" ~ 4 more disappointed crowd can.
not be found anywhere, and the air is thick
with The maledictions heaped upon Cieve-
land and his administration. Democracy
here means patronage, pure and simple, and
nothing else, and the talk Of Cleyelsnd's
denomination receives q most chilling re-
sponse. OF course the Republicans sympa.
thize with their discontinue and offer
every balm Of consolation within reach,
but nothing but Office will appease their
anger, aud as the months roll ON and the
days of grace shorten, tho violence Of indig.
nation increases. The delegates from this
District in the next Democratic National
Convention viii not be Cleveland meD,
mark that.
The recent Republican State Conventions
In Ohio, Penn sylvania, Iowa and Mary.
land have caused the administration to
scratch it's head and roll It's eyes In wonder.
naent ut the remarkably clear, concise and
truthful manner in which the aforesaid ad-
niaistration is arraigned before the public.
They see the handwriting on the wall, and
it requi-s no extraordinary Daniel TO give
q correct Interpretation. They had been
nursing the delusions that there were some
old animosities lurking in the Republican
ranks that would show themselves In
marked degree when State conventions pre-
sumed to indicate Presidential choice, and
anticipated and predicted more or less Of a
rupture. The harmony which has charac.
terized these conventions, tho good spirit
which pervades the entiro party, and the
determination eyinoed TO redeem the ooun.
try from tho hands Of shams and pretend.
ers, is little moro pointed than they
expected. They dread the expose Of their
shameful abuse of civil service; their bung.
ling, in beetle management of the finances;
their cowardly foreign policy; their cruel
treatment Of the country's defenders; their
vascillatin9 nanagemeu. of tho public do
main, and their utter and hopeless failure
to inangurate a single measure for the re-
lief or advancement Of the people. There
is not single thing in this administration
thus far that can 30 pointed 10 with any
degree Of American prids or party salts.
faction.
TIE programme is pretty well completed
for Cieyeland's electioneering trip, and soon
he will be Swinging round the circlo" on
public exhibition. This game was played
| by Andy Johnson, when there was some
plausible EXCUSE for it on the ground of the
! exciting and unsettled condition of affairs
after the war, but it proved most ignomin'
ious failure. 1t was tried again by Presi.
dent Hayes, who, you remember, became u
prominent attraction at various county az
ricultural fairs. There Is no record that
that procedure contributed very materially
TO his popularity. The managers of the
coming exhibition intended TO thrust Cleve-
land on to the various Grand Army reunions
this fall, and thus atone for his numerous
pension vetoes and unmistakable sympathy
for the rebel leaders, but, whether wisely OF
unwiselv, that child was stran9led at the
St. Louis affair, and hence the change OF
programme and the working up of munioi-
pal invitations. I know of no Republican
|
simple party expedient rejoice that the De
mocracy are still maintaining their recorG
of stupid blunderinG.
Quite large number of changes will takt
place In the Interior and Treasury Depart
ments on tho first Of September and tn,
month following. A good many of tho ole
clsrks against whom not complaint can b,
made except that they are Republicans
have been asked TO resign and have aIread,
taken the hint and put in their letters
while others will be dismissed outright O,
the gronad of the necessity of reducing tn
force. All this Is a pretense and sham An.
only designed to make place for new ant
partisan appointments. Mr.. Cleveland il
compelled to yield TO the enormous pressur
for office. and thero is abundant reason 70
supposinQ a complete surrender now to th
Iaysnous greed of party.
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! In Brief. and to the Point.